face directory

working with this idea of compiling ideas and trials .............. this is last evenings trials. The one thing that is good about this , is that when working one face I am on to the next in my head.

This one has potential but not quite there yet.

Zaz;-)

faces

I like simple faces and, come to that, simple figures too. So I am starting to work with this idea of a face directory to assist me in producing some new faces and figures.

These I have played around with - simplicity - stick , twig figures and simple cartoon-like faces and features.

Now to work on more ideas and also the translation into papers and materials.

Zaz;-)

faces

Faces and figures - thats my passion. They have always figured in my work, alongside the teabag obsession. So I have decided to work on faces and create a kind of face directory. A dictionary of faces in all kinds of techniques and materials. I would like to think that I could create one a day but sometimes commitment like that is not ideal as it can be overlooked easily and that in itself creates failure................... and I don't want to fail with this.

So guess it would be easier to work some faces stitched, some sketched, some just found .......and then direct them into a ''what if' project. That is really how I work anyway so to document it should be relatively easy.

As I am in the process of moving house I need this creativity and direction to focus my attention on - so these faces that I am beginning the project with, are ones that are already created and in an exhibition currently running. Somebody said they looked like me but I dont think so - at least it wasnt done consciously if they do.

Does my hair really look like that? I dont think so ;-) But I do think they portray a thinking mode and that is something I do do .....................a lot.

Zaz;-)

just sometimes..............

Christmas is not that far away - really only just around the corner! I promised the church sewing circle ladies that I would embroider a cloth for their sales table - (note to self - learn to say ''no'' :0))

Trouble is - my idea of embroidery and the stuff I do is a long long way from the ladies fantastic, traditional, oh-so-neat embroidery.

The gauntlet is down - and the challenge has to be met!

I am trained in embroidery - traditional and otherwise - but it sometimes has to be proved.

So here is my little angel cloth - at least the start of it................... finely worked in French Knots and stranded thread................... and it tooks hours to do this much.

I might just do another in teabags and old puree tubes :0) Just to prove my point that is :0)

Zaz ;0)

looking for work

I am an unemployed cocker spaniel called William , 6 months old- currently looking for a position within the marketing industry for dog food/products etc

I am well behaved (sometimes), gorgeous (all the time) and unbelievably beautiful - (modest too)

any ideas?

Zaz;-)

two of the boys

a little update on my ''boys''

Charles and William - 9 years old and 6 months old ..........now where did all that dog come from !

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Zaz ;0)

and the next to arrive

I am still working on my figures for the ''Kitchen'' exhibition - and here is the new one to be submitted

all recycled stuff - whether it be packing materials, or antique equipment discovered in the local rummage shop ........................ the tall wooden post thingy is an old potato masher - and the board the figure stands on is part of an old mangel system ................... the clothes are ...............well , now wouldnt that be telling :0)

but I will disclose that the amazing hair is an old horse hair brush ...................I love recycling - such wonderful stuff.

Zaz ;0)

so very ''cirque''

I have been working on some new figures for an up and coming exhibition.......entitled ' kitchen' . Now i know that is not the most inspiring title in the world so I have created a figure in true Cirque style ............

''juggling the shopping''

hope you like her/him! I have so enjoyed myself making her/him

Zaz;0)